The pair met up at the Dubai Racing Club, where Crouch is away on a team break.

Alison supports Tottenham Hotspur, one of Crouch's former clubs, and once said he could have been a footballer had things turned out differently, having had trials with Chelsea and Charlton Athletic as a youngster.

Marking himself out as one of the more interesting Premier League footballers, Crouch was recently spotted crowdsurfing at a Kasabian gig.